How difficult to do something like this…

  • Hi all. Just getting started with my blog and I found a feature on another blog that I would like to emulate. I just want to know if this is something I can do without a bunch of coding knowledge (I don’t have any!) or if there is an easier way to accomplish something similar.

    The WP page that I like has a video layered over an image. It looks like the image was specifically designed to fit the video player. ( I wouldn’t know which video player to use to accomplish this or how to place it inside the image either) I like how he has stripped the body/text area from this front page and replaced it with his intro material.

    If I’m in over my head, I’ll move on. But before I bang my head against the wall for days trying to do this, I’d rather just know now.

    Here’s the page that I like: https://bonniecribbs.com

    Thanks!

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    (@techievous)

    That’s fairly basic. The image is a background image; the CSS for it would be something like background: url('link') position no-repeat. The video is an embedded YouTube video.

    The way it was implemented there isn’t ideal either because his theme is responsive but whoever did that never took the responsiveness into the equation.

    How to accomplish it would be different from theme to theme. If your theme doesn’t support that out of the box, you can still make it possible by grabbing the page ID# and start localize the CSS to that page only. Then set up the home page to that page in Settings –> readings.

    Thread Starter aflblogger

    (@aflblogger)

    LOL..thanks for your reply. It seems that the word “basic” is quite relative! ??

    I’m using the Tempera theme.

    It looks like I’m going to have to start to familiarize myself with some coding and manipulation of CSS if I want to have the custom look I’m after.

    Something else I noticed is that on his About page,
    https://bonniecribbs.com/about/
    the video has a nice drop shadow around it. I did the whole “inspect element” thing to see if I could get some idea of how to make these types of subtle changes, but I just don’t know enough about coding to know what I’m looking at.

    Which brings me back to my previous point.

    I really enjoy doing this stuff, but my knowledge base has got some holes.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter aflblogger

    (@aflblogger)

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